Energizing Leisure

Replace "Doom Scrolling" with "Joy Building"

I've talked a lot about the energy flywheel¹ concept, which fundamentally is about intentionally managing your energy givers and the energy takers to propel you to greater heights. Two earlier points that I want to repeat here are "never waste energy" and "be the architect of your day."

Up until this point, I have focused on managing your energy flywheel at work. But in reality, your energy flywheel isn't sitting on your office desk. You don't leave it at the end of your workday and return to it the next morning. When you have a bad day in the office, does it not impact the evening at home? When you have a bad weekend, does it not impact the start of your work week?

You have one energy flywheel for your whole day, for your whole life, for your whole self². And there are energy givers and energy takers throughout your whole day. Just as you optimize and intentionally organize your work energy givers and takers, there is value and momentum to be had by similarly giving attention to how your energy givers and takers are organized outside of work.